[linux-audio-user] Re: Have a look at the kcsm .ogg stream

[Dave Phillips]

James Stone wrote:

>On Mon, 09 May 2005 17:08:02 -0400, M P Smoak wrote:
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>>I've been listening to kcsm recently using alsaplayer. They have a 128k
>>stream and a 64k mp3 stream.  Both have sounded real good everytime till
>>now.
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>>Right now the ogg stream is very distorted/corrupted.  I sent them an
>>email, but I'm still interested in what's causing this.
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>>I can bring up 2 instances of Alsaplayer and listen to first one stream
>>and then the other.  Alsaplayer reports the mp3 stream as 64k, but the
>>streaming rate for the 128k stream varies, 110  to  230 rapidly.  I never
>>payed attention to the stream rate before but I know I've been using the
>>ogg stream and I think I would have noticed this rapid variation.
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>>I running a recent PlanetCCRMA RH9 setup.
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>>Who's problem is it; theirs or Alsaplayers?
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>>Marv
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>Dunno.. sounds fine to me.
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>The changing bitrate is normal for ogg streams AFAIK.
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MP3 and OGG files can be encoded using what is called a variable bit 
rate (VBR), which is why you see the fluctuating values.

Best,

dp